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Working Papers

2021

1. Oil and the U.S. Stock Market: Implications for Low Carbon Policies
   Working Paper series, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article Oil and the U.S. stock market: Implications for low carbon policies, Energy Economics, Elsevier (2021) View citations (8) (2021)

2019

2. Long-Run Changes in Radiative Forcing and Surface Temperature: The Effect of Human Activity over the Last Five Centuries
   Discussion Paper Series, Department of Economics, University of Macedonia
   See also Journal Article Long-run changes in radiative forcing and surface temperature: The effect of human activity over the last five centuries, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier (2016) View citations (17) (2016)

2018

3. Evaluating trends in time series of distributions: A spatial fingerprint of human effects on climate
   Working Papers, Department of Economics, University of Missouri View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Evaluating trends in time series of distributions: A spatial fingerprint of human effects on climate, Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier (2020) View citations (24) (2020)

2016

4. Time Series Analysis of Global Temperature Distributions: Identifying and Estimating Persistent Features in Temperature Anomalies
   Working Papers, Department of Economics, University of Missouri View citations (10)

2011

5. Reconciling anthropogenic climate change with observed temperature 1998–2008
   Scholarly Articles, Harvard University Department of Economics View citations (11)

2010

6. Modelling the World Oil Market: Assessment of a Quarterly Econometric Model
   EcoMod2003, EcoMod View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Modelling the world oil market: Assessment of a quarterly econometric model, Energy Policy, Elsevier (2007) View citations (119) (2007)

2009

7. Does temperature contain a stochastic trend? Evaluating conflicting statistical results
   Scholarly Articles, Harvard University Department of Economics
8. The Environmental Impacts of Soybean Expansion and Infrastructure Development in Brazil’s Amazon Basin
   Working Papers, Tufts University, Global Development and Environment Institute View citations (3)

2008

9. Assessing the factors behind oil price changes
   Working Paper Series, European Central Bank View citations (21)
10. Will oil prices decline over the long run?
    Occasional Paper Series, European Central Bank View citations (17)

1997

11. Is there a global warming signal in hemispheric temperature series?
    Working Papers in Ecological Economics, Australian National University, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Ecological Economics Program View citations (4)
12. Time series properties of global climate variables: detection and attribution of climate change
    Working Papers in Ecological Economics, Australian National University, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Ecological Economics Program View citations (4)

Undated

13. The Environmental Impacts of Soybean Expansion and Infrastructure Development in Brazil’s Amazon Basin
    GDAE Working Papers, GDAE, Tufts University

Journal Articles

2025

1. Does electric mobility display racial or income disparities? Quantifying inequality in the distribution of electric vehicle adoption and charging infrastructure in the United States
   Applied Energy, 2025, 378, (PA) View citations (1)

2023

2. An empirical estimate for the snow albedo feedback effect
   Climatic Change, 2023, 176, (8), 1-20 View citations (1)
3. Energy price volatility affects decisions to purchase energy using capital: Motor vehicles
   Energy Economics, 2023, 126, (C) View citations (3)
4. Social and environmental events disrupt the relation between motor gasoline prices and market fundamentals
   Energy Economics, 2023, 126, (C) View citations (1)
5. Sub-continental-scale carbon stocks of individual trees in African drylands
   Nature, 2023, 615, (7950), 80-86 View citations (2)

2022

6. Increasing storm risk, structural defense, and house prices in the Florida Keys
   Ecological Economics, 2022, 194, (C) View citations (3)

2021

7. Evidence of air quality data misreporting in China: An impulse indicator saturation model comparison of local government-reported and U.S. embassy-reported PM2.5 concentrations (2015–2017)
   PLOS ONE, 2021, 16, (4), 1-18 View citations (1)
8. Feedbacks among electric vehicle adoption, charging, and the cost and installation of rooftop solar photovoltaics
   Nature Energy, 2021, 6, (2), 143-149 View citations (9)
9. Oil and the U.S. stock market: Implications for low carbon policies
   Energy Economics, 2021, 103, (C) View citations (8)
   See also Working Paper Oil and the U.S. Stock Market: Implications for Low Carbon Policies, Working Paper series (2021) View citations (8) (2021)

2020

10. A Regionalized or Unified Oil Market: The Price Spread Between Brent and WTI
    Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 2020, Volume 9, (Number 2) View citations (4)
11. Evaluating trends in time series of distributions: A spatial fingerprint of human effects on climate
    Journal of Econometrics, 2020, 214, (1), 274-294 View citations (24)
    See also Working Paper Evaluating trends in time series of distributions: A spatial fingerprint of human effects on climate, Working Papers (2018) View citations (1) (2018)
12. Non-market forces significantly affect oil prices
    Nature Energy, 2020, 5, (2), 129-130 View citations (4)
13. Oil price regimes and their role in price diversions from market fundamentals
    Nature Energy, 2020, 5, (2), 141-149 View citations (10)

2019

14. Pass-through of motor gasoline taxes: Efficiency and efficacy of environmental taxes
    Energy Policy, 2019, 125, (C), 207-215 View citations (10)
15. The effect of oil and gas price and price volatility on rig activity in tight formations and OPEC strategy
    Nature Energy, 2019, 4, (4), 321-328 View citations (15)

2018

16. The effects of combined-cycle generation and hydraulic fracturing on the price for coal, oil, and natural gas: Implications for carbon taxes
    Energy Policy, 2018, 118, (C), 603-611 View citations (10)

2017

17. Airfares and oil prices: ‘Feathers and Rockets’ adjustments
    Energy Economics, 2017, 68, (C), 515-521 View citations (1)
18. Practice-based evidence in community guide systematic reviews
    American Journal of Public Health, 2017, 107, (3), 413-420
19. The effect of climate change on electricity expenditures in Massachusetts
    Energy Policy, 2017, 106, (C), 1-11 View citations (14)

2016

20. Long-run changes in radiative forcing and surface temperature: The effect of human activity over the last five centuries
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2016, 76, (C), 67-85 View citations (17)
    See also Working Paper Long-Run Changes in Radiative Forcing and Surface Temperature: The Effect of Human Activity over the Last Five Centuries, Discussion Paper Series (2019) (2019)
21. Lower electricity prices and greenhouse gas emissions due to rooftop solar: empirical results for Massachusetts
    Energy Policy, 2016, 93, (C), 345-352 View citations (10)
22. Price differences among crude oils: The private costs of supply disruptions
    Energy Economics, 2016, 56, (C), 1-8 View citations (14)

2015

23. Testing competing models of the temperature hiatus: assessing the effects of conditioning variables and temporal uncertainties through sample-wide break detection
    Climatic Change, 2015, 131, (4), 705-718 View citations (31)

2014

24. A unified world oil market: Regions in physical, economic, geographic, and political space
    Energy Policy, 2014, 74, (C), 235-242 View citations (14)
25. Anthropogenic and natural causes of climate change
    Climatic Change, 2014, 122, (1), 257-269 View citations (35)
26. Crude oil: Commodity or financial asset?
    Energy Economics, 2014, 46, (C), 216-223 View citations (41)
27. Oil demand shocks reconsidered: A cointegrated vector autoregression
    Energy Economics, 2014, 41, (C), 33-40 View citations (30)
28. Pasture conversion and competitive cattle rents in the Amazon
    Ecological Economics, 2014, 97, (C), 182-190 View citations (5)
29. The End of Cheap Oil: Economic, Social, and Political Change in the US and Former Soviet Union
    Energies, 2014, 7, (10), 1-17 View citations (2)

2013

30. Does temperature contain a stochastic trend: linking statistical results to physical mechanisms
    Climatic Change, 2013, 118, (3), 729-743 View citations (52)
31. Revisiting the weather effect on energy consumption: Implications for the impact of climate change
    Energy Policy, 2013, 62, (C), 1377-1384 View citations (19)
32. The role of trader positions in spot and futures prices for WTI
    Energy Economics, 2013, 40, (C), 176-182 View citations (11)

2012

33. Ecosystem Service Value and Agricultural Conversion in the Amazon: Implications for Policy Intervention
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2012, 53, (2), 279-295 View citations (4)
34. Effects of Warming Temperatures on Winning Times in the Boston Marathon
    PLOS ONE, 2012, 7, (9), 1-5 View citations (1)

2011

35. Do household energy expenditures affect mortgage delinquency rates?
    Energy Economics, 2011, 33, (2), 188-194 View citations (19)
36. The role of market fundamentals and speculation in recent price changes for crude oil
    Energy Policy, 2011, 39, (1), 105-115 View citations (131)

2010

37. The economics of cropland conversion in Amazonia: The importance of agricultural rent
    Ecological Economics, 2010, 69, (7), 1503-1509 View citations (10)

2009

38. Horizontal and vertical transmissions in the US oil supply chain
    Energy Policy, 2009, 37, (2), 644-650 View citations (22)
39. Oil prices, speculation, and fundamentals: Interpreting causal relations among spot and futures prices
    Energy Economics, 2009, 31, (4), 550-558 View citations (192)

2008

40. Alternatives to conventional crude oil: When, how quickly, and market driven?
    Ecological Economics, 2008, 67, (3), 405-411 View citations (12)
41. An interdisciplinary model of soybean yield in the Amazon Basin: The climatic, edaphic, and economic determinants
    Ecological Economics, 2008, 65, (2), 420-431 View citations (17)
42. Determinants of OPEC production: Implications for OPEC behavior
    Energy Economics, 2008, 30, (2), 333-351 View citations (54)
43. Oil prices: The role of refinery utilization, futures markets and non-linearities
    Energy Economics, 2008, 30, (5), 2609-2622 View citations (37)

2007

44. Modelling the world oil market: Assessment of a quarterly econometric model
    Energy Policy, 2007, 35, (1), 178-191 View citations (119)
    See also Working Paper Modelling the World Oil Market: Assessment of a Quarterly Econometric Model, EcoMod2003 (2010) View citations (1) (2010)
45. Valuing ecosystem services: A shadow price for net primary production
    Ecological Economics, 2007, 64, (2), 454-462 View citations (15)

2006

46. Energy Prices and Turning Points: The Relationship between Income and Energy Use/Carbon Emissions
    The Energy Journal, 2006, Volume 27, (Number 4), 157-180 View citations (89)
    Also in The Energy Journal, 2006, 27, (4), 157-180 (2006) View citations (5)
47. Is there a turning point in the relationship between income and energy use and/or carbon emissions?
    Ecological Economics, 2006, 56, (2), 176-189 View citations (289)

2005

48. Causes for an asymmetric relation between the price of crude oil and refined petroleum products
    Energy Policy, 2005, 33, (12), 1587-1596 View citations (78)
49. The descent of Mount Petroleum
    Nature, 2005, 434, (7036), 960-960

2004

50. Does OPEC Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Oil Prices
    The Energy Journal, 2004, Volume 25, (Number 4), 67-90 View citations (149)
    Also in The Energy Journal, 2004, 25, (4), 67-90 (2004) View citations (6)
51. The Mechanisms for Autonomous Energy Efficiency Increases: A Cointegration Analysis of the US Energy/GDP Ratio
    The Energy Journal, 2004, 25, (1), 63-86 View citations (1)
    Also in The Energy Journal, 2004, Volume 25, (Number 1), 63-86 (2004) View citations (46)

2003

52. Modeling the Drivers of Urban Land Use Change in the Pearl River Delta, China: Integrating Remote Sensing with Socioeconomic Data
    Land Economics, 2003, 79, (1), 106-121 View citations (72)
53. Oil supply and oil politics: Deja Vu all over again
    Energy Policy, 2003, 31, (6), 485-489 View citations (14)

2001

54. Oil Production in the Lower 48 States: Economic, Geological, and Institutional Determinants
    The Energy Journal, 2001, Volume22, (Number 1), 27-49 View citations (41)
    Also in The Energy Journal, 2001, 22, (1), 27-49 (2001)

2000

55. Aggregation and the role of energy in the economy
    Ecological Economics, 2000, 32, (2), 301-317 View citations (161)
56. Landsat reveals China's farmland reserves, but they're vanishing fast
    Nature, 2000, 406, (6792), 121-121 View citations (7)

1998

57. The determinants of atmospheric SO2 concentrations: reconsidering the environmental Kuznets curve
    Ecological Economics, 1998, 25, (2), 209-220 View citations (167)
58. The impact of climate change on US agriculture: a response to Mendelssohn et al. (1994)
    Ecological Economics, 1998, 26, (2), 113-119 View citations (9)

1997

59. A Biophysical Model of Corn Yield: Integrating Climatic and Social Determinants
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1997, 79, (1), 178-190 View citations (55)
60. Evidence for human influence on climate from hemispheric temperature relations
    Nature, 1997, 388, (6637), 39-44 View citations (42)
61. Natural Gas in the U.S.: How Far Can Technology Stretch the Resource Base?
    The Energy Journal, 1997, 18, (2), 89-108
    Also in The Energy Journal, 1997, Volume18, (Number 2), 89-108 (1997) View citations (6)

1996

62. Managing the global common: The economics of climate change: William Nordhaus
    Ecological Economics, 1996, 19, (1), 96-96
63. The fissured land: An ecological history of India: Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha. Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1992, 274 pp. ISBN 019-563027-02750-9
    Ecological Economics, 1996, 18, (3), 260-261

1995

64. A model of the world oil market for project LINK Integrating economics, geology and politics
    Economic Modelling, 1995, 12, (2), 165-178 View citations (25)
65. Measuring sustainability: needed--an interdisciplinary approach to an interdisciplinary concept
    Ecological Economics, 1995, 15, (2), 109-112 View citations (13)
66. The economic multiplier of environmental life support: Can capital substitute for a degraded environment?
    Ecological Economics, 1995, 12, (1), 67-79 View citations (9)

1994

67. The effect of expected energy prices on energy demand: implications for energy conservation and carbon taxes
    Resource and Energy Economics, 1994, 16, (2), 167-188 View citations (4)
68. The relation between marginal product and price in US energy markets: Implications for climate change policy
    Energy Economics, 1994, 16, (2), 145-158 View citations (19)

1993

69. An empirical exploration of the relation among diversity, stability, and performance in economic systems
    Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 1993, 4, (2), 299-313 View citations (3)
70. Blueprint for a green economy: David Pearce, Anil Markandya and Edward B. Barbier. Earthscan, London, Great Britain, 1989. 192 pp., [UK pound]6.95. ISBN 1 85383 066 6.: Blueprint 2: Greening the World Economy: David Pearce (Editor). Earthscan, London, Great Britain, 1991. 232 pp. [UK pound]7.95. ISBN 1 85383 076 3
    Ecological Economics, 1993, 7, (1), 75-78
71. In the servitude of power: Energy and civilization through the ages: Jean-Claude Debeir, Jean-Paul Deleage and Daniel Hemery. Zed Books, London, UK, 1991, [UK pound]12.95, ISBN 086232943
    Ecological Economics, 1993, 8, (3), 313-314
72. The Effects of NAFTA on the Environment
    The Energy Journal, 1993, 14, (3), 217-240
    Also in The Energy Journal, 1993, Volume14, (Number 3), 217-240 (1993) View citations (5)

1992

73. A biophysical analysis of the energy/real GDP ratio: implications for substitution and technical change
    Ecological Economics, 1992, 6, (1), 35-56 View citations (48)

1991

74. Forecasting Ultimate Oil Recovery and Its Rate of Production: Incorporating Economic Forces into the Models of M. King Hubbert
    The Energy Journal, 1991, 12, (2), 17-46
    Also in The Energy Journal, 1991, Volume 12, (Number 2), 17-46 (1991) View citations (35)
75. Limits on the Economic Effectiveness of a Carbon Tax
    The Energy Journal, 1991, 12, (4), 139-144
    Also in The Energy Journal, 1991, Volume 12, (Number 4), 139-144 (1991)
76. Oil production in the lower 48 states: Reconciling curve fitting and econometric models
    Resources and Energy, 1991, 13, (1), 111-127 View citations (33)

Chapters

1998

1. INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF CARBON TAXATION
   Chapter 6 in Link Proceedings 1991, 1992 Selected Papers from Meetings in Moscow, 1991, and Ankara, 1992, 1998, pp 119-152